Tarnos - La Digue Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, listen up. It’s Rusty. Let’s have a look at the charts for the next couple of weeks, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag, to be honest.

The opening days are looking pretty average. We’ve got some swell on Wednesday the 9th, but it’s lumpy and cross-shore, not worth getting excited about. The water’s sitting at 73.4°F, which is a good four and a half degrees warmer than normal for this time of year, so that’s a nice bonus if you’re getting in. But the waves are messy. We’ll have a couple of flat-ish days before things start to clean up.

Thursday the 10th shapes up a bit better. The morning session is the one to go for. We’ve got a clean 4.3ft from the northwest with a good 10-second period under a light offshore breeze. That’s proper clean surf. The afternoon gets chopped up by the sea breeze, so make sure you’re out early. That’s the pattern for the next few days – clean mornings, rubbish afternoons.

Friday and Saturday are smaller, just ankle to knee-high slop. There’s not much energy in the water, so it’s not really worth paddling out for unless you’re just messing around.

Now, the standout is Sunday the 13th. This is the one to circle on the calendar. Overnight a proper pulse of groundswell fills in. We’re looking at 4.3ft to 4.9ft of northwest swell with a long 12-13 second period, and the energy jumps right up, which is a strong pulse of energy. More importantly, the morning is glassy with a light east wind – it’s going to be absolutely perfect out at Tarnos - La Digue. This is as good as it gets for the next two weeks. The swell direction is a solid match for that exposed west-facing stretch of sand, so it should be breaking with some real weight.

Monday the 14th keeps the quality rolling with another clean, glassy morning. 4.3ft of the same west-northwest groundswell with a 12-second period. The energy is still decent, but Sunday is the bigger, better day.

The middle of that second week, from the 15th through the 16th, is nothing to write home about. The swell backs off, the wind gets messy, and we’re back to small, poor surf. Things try to pick up again on the morning of Thursday the 17th with a clean 4.3ft, but the period is a short 7 seconds, so it’ll be a bit crumbly and lacking punch.

We’ve got another window on the mornings of Saturday the 19th and Monday the 21st. There’s a bit more life in the ocean by then, with clean conditions and some northwest energy at 12-seconds, but the size is down. It’s surfable, but nothing like last Sunday.

Honestly, if you can only get out once in this whole 16-day window, make it the morning of Sunday the 13th. That’s the standout. Get on it.

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